HENRY MILLER - DOCUMENT SIGNED 02/15/1978 - HFSID 264479

HENRY MILLER
The author signs on this document hiring his son, Henry Tony Miller, as his agent at a commission of ten percent.
Typed Document Signed: "Henry Miller" as Artist and "H. Tony Miller" as Artist's Agent, 1 page, 7x8½. No place, but possibly Pacific Palisades, California, where Miller lived until his death in 1980, 1978 February 15. Headed: "Contractual Agreement". The author and artist hires his son, Henry Tony Miller, as his agent at a commission of ten percent. His son's responsibilities were to include negotiating with galleries, arranging for exhibits and building relationships with interested buyers as well as keeping a ledger of funds realized from the sale of his father's art. Although HENRY MILLER (1891-1980) was best known as the author of more than 36 works, including his controversial 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, which along with Tropic of Capricorn, chronicled Miller's life as an expatriate in Paris (1930-1939), he later became a successful artist. He once told a friend that if he could paint as well as a child he would regard himself as successful "and to hell with the rest of everything else." During the mid-1970s, Japanese art publisher Sadajiro Kubo produced 23 of Miller's stone-plate lithographs (including Childish Dream), nine etchings and four serigraphs. The works came to be known as the Kubo Collection. Miller, who helped to establish Big Sur as an artist's colony when he lived there from 1944-1963, later moved to Pacific Palisades, California, where he died on June 7, 1980. HENRY TONY MILLER (born in 1948) was the son of Miller and his third wife, Polish immigrant Janine Martha Lepska, with whom Miller also had a daughter (born in 1945). After the marriage collapsed in 1951, Miller would marry two more wives. Matted to 15½x22½ with a photograph, b/w, 10x8. Mount slightly soiled. Letter is slightly soiled touching some words of type. Overall, fine condition. Matted, not in Gallery of History style. Not reviewed by us for conservation integrity. "As is" matting purchase.